Worlds of Psychotic People
Subtitle: Wanderers, Bricoleurs and Strategists (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 25, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415303903
Description: "Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the way in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the reality of a clinical mental ward."--Jacket.